Darina Clancy

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Darina Clancy Producer Director has 25 years experience in production across many disciplines.
Darina graduated with Distinction, coming second in her class, from the Diploma in Communications, and TV production with her chosen speciality as Sound Engineering, in Colaiste Dhulaigh Dublin. She was also bestowed with a specially created award for her thesis on Sound and Healing, which focussed on the science of audio and music as therapeutic opportunities for people with special needs and physical ailments. The discipline has since become a recognised University undergraduate programme across the US and Europe.

She started work experience in the Irish Management Institute’s Audio Visual Department in 1992 and was promptly hired full time after spending the summer of her graduation in ’95 working in London with the BBC and spent 3 months working with the BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) radio station. By 20 she was deputy director and technical director to the IMI’s National Conference, as well as a key member of the AV team dealing with national and international dignitaries (presidents, country leaders, and business leaders) & daily AV requirements. By 22 she was managing the department with a budget of £1million per annum, plus annual Capital Expenditure budgets which she used to upgrade 2 TV studios from U Matic, manual operated multicam studios to SVHS remotely operated camera, cutting down on man hours as well as allowing lecturers to vision mix and pick camera angles themselves. She upgraded & refitted all conference room from overhead projectors to the modern(!) digital computer operated projectors. In 1997 she was tasked with reducing her annual budget expenditure by 20% which she achieved with little disruption to production.

While in the IMI she not only gained experience in scheduling, graphics people skills, delivering on time and on budget, and incredible technical skills across camera, sound and edit, all the while delivering content with integrity, she also learned business skills by default. She devised and delivered her own public course at the IMI, on presentation skills which ran five times during her tenure at the company.

After returning to college to secure her BA in TV & Digital Communications, Darina went on to work with high profile corporate clients to deliver high quality promotional materials across the country, once again delivering contemporary and engaging content within budget with a corporate video and advertising firm.

She was then recruited to manage and refurbish the internationally renowned Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Ringsend to allow a more effective cost allocation service for management as well as recruiting new acts & musicians to a faltering studio recording industry.

She worked with the American multinational localisation company NetG, in Limerick as Content Manager where she oversaw the building of 3 video recording studios and 4 voice over recording studios. She also managed and recruited over 250 actors and voice over artists over a period of 2 years to provide up to 200 hours of video per year plus 600 hours of audio recordings for the localised training products. She also managed a team of 12 operators.

Darina took a career break in the early 00's to support her young son, but continued with her love of production part time, by touring nationally as Production Manager with Fiona York's one woman stage play ‘Rose’. Darina also won four awards for the National Drama champions in 2003 as Stage Manager.

She returned to University to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Television Studies in Waterford Institute of Technology through the Irish language, and is now fluent in the native Irish language. She became the class leader and graduated having produced a half hour documentary which was broadcast in three countries, on her father's experience as one of the first ever Irish soldiers to serve overseas with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces in the Congo in 1960. She graduated with a 2:1 Honours.

Darina has Produced and Directed television content for all four national Irish broadcasters and been nominated for 2 IFTA’s in factual series. (Series Producer of the RTE Genealogical series Dead Money & Producer / Director of ep2 of RTE’s Creedon’s Wild Atlantic Way). She played a key role in the IFTA winning Operation Transformation which she has worked on for 4 series. Other Factual series include Building Ireland, An Lá a Rugadh Mé, Bagman, 3 short films for RTE’s centenary celebrations of the 1916 rising (Every County has a Story) & TG4's landmark ten part series on the social history of the GAA, which was nominated for an Oireactas award at Aras an Uachtarain. Darina also teamed up with Aoife Hearne in 2014 to follow her throughout her pregnancy for an online blog on Facebook sponsored by Safefood focussing on Breastfeeding for children. Other factual entertainment series as Producer include The Apprentice, Junior Eurovision, The Ploughing Championships and Super Garden as SP/D. She has worked on two factual documentary feature films both of which were part funded by the IFB and went on to win multiple international awards - Get The Picture, a biopic of the legendary photojournalist John Morris, and Blood Fruit - a profile of the Dunnes Stores workers who striked against Apartheid in the 1980's in Dublin.

In 2013 she co-founded Seabed Productions. She has delivered two series of Hollywood in Éirinn to TG4 under the banner of Seabed, has 2 series in development with RTE, and 5 with TG4, 2 of which were supported for BAI application, and is currently working across 5 projects in development in the company.

Darina ensures to attend at least one course each year to maintain or upgrade her professional skills.
Darina has an Honours Higher Diploma in Speech and Drama and Oral Communication (ALCM LCM ). She has also had several articles published by national and local papers over the last ten years.

A full CV can be provided on request.
Referees:
Philip Kampf - Vision Independent Productions Dublin
Peter Kelly - Esras Films Dublin
Garry Keane IFTA award winning Director
Aideen Kane - Fork Films New York
Additional information:
I'm looking for new opportunities on an international level as my son has now moved on to college. I'd love to bring my skill set and personal experience to a whole new level.

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Job Titles	Video Editor, Script Writer, Writer, Script Editor, Director, Producer, Line Producer, Production Assistant (PA), Researcher, Camera Operator, Camera Assistant, Sound Operator / Engineer, Sound Editor, Creative Director, Casting Director, Post Production Coordinator
Years in industry	6+ years